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This International Standard defines an application integration framework - a set of elements and rules for describing integration models and application interoperability profiles. This part of ISO 15745 defines the generic elements and rules for describing integration models and application interoperability profiles, together with their component profiles - process profiles, information exchange profiles, and resource profiles. Parts 2, 3 and 4 of this International Standard define the technology specific elements and rules for describing both communication network profiles and the communication related aspects of device profiles based upon particular fieldbus technologies - these parts can be used in conjunction with this part to form an application integration framework for a specific fieldbus technology. This International Standard is applicable to industrial automation applications such as discrete manufacturing, process automation, electronics assembly, semiconductor fabrication, and wide-area material handling. It may also be applicable to other automation and control applications such as utility automation, agriculture, off-road vehicles, medical and laboratory automation, and public transport systems.